Guidance on KDHAP-SN is emerging

The National Alliance to End Homelessness has posted a number of hard-to-find regulatory announcements, including several dated December 5, regarding a sub-category of the HUD hurricane relief program, KDHAP-SN. The "SN" stands for "special needs," and KDHAP-SN serves not only people who were homeless at the time of the hurricanes, but also those who lost rentals financed through HOPWA, Shelter Plus Care, or the Supportive Housing Program. Go to the group's Katrina page and scroll down to the HUD section.

Additionally, the Homeless Management Information Systems listserv (see below for more subscription information) sent out a new document today captioned "KDHAP-SN Administering Agency (KAA) Fact Sheet." This one doesn't seem to be posted online yet. A lot of it consists of definitions -- including for three kinds of help the program will pay "KAA" agencies to provide. These are: eligibility verification; "housing search," which includes paying transportation and phone bills for home-seekers, and "housing stabilization," which includes referrals, "coordination with PHA for rental assistance, intervention with landlord and PHA if necessary, and establishment of long term housing plan in preparation for end of KDHAP-SN assistance." It's possible for "KAA" agencies to collect as nearly $4,000 for each household that it assists in all three ways, and "grant amounts may be supplemented"... It being an interesting further question whether the said households could themselves find uses for $4,000 cash money about now.